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====== What is Learning ====== | ====== What is Learning ====== | ||
- | =====Learning is:===== | + | ===== Learning Definitions ===== |
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+ | There are numerous definitions of learning depending on the point of view. Some of them claim that learning is: | ||
* the acquisition of knowledge by study. | * the acquisition of knowledge by study. | ||
- | * "all relatively permanent changes in potential for behavior that result from experience but are not due to fatigue, maturation, drugs, injury, or disease." (Lefrancois, G. R. Theories of Human Learning: What the Old Man Said. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning. 2000.) | + | * "all relatively permanent changes in potential for behavior that result from experience but are not due to fatigue, maturation, drugs, injury, or disease."((Lefrancois, G. R. Theories of Human Learning: What the Old Man Said. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning. 2000.)) |
- | * "a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. This refers to a change in behavior, an external change that we can observe." (Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.) | + | * "a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. This refers to a change in behavior, an external change that we can observe." ((Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.)) |
- | * "a relatively permanent change in mental associations due to experience. This definition focuses on a change in mental associations, an internal change that we cannot observe." (Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.) | + | * "a relatively permanent change in mental associations due to experience. This definition focuses on a change in mental associations, an internal change that we cannot observe." ((Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.)) |
* the sudden or slow acquisition of insight into the rules governing certain relationships in the environment. | * the sudden or slow acquisition of insight into the rules governing certain relationships in the environment. |